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After 30’s you have to monitor carefully what you eat when you go out. Go for natural fresh squeezed fruit juice and forget about pizza. Avoid the fast food restaurants and restrict eating junk food to once every 15 days.

Try and avoid fizzy drinks and the munchies coming hand in hand with them: Pringles, salty snacks and anything that you might nibble while hanging out with friends.

Fresh fruit is the recommended snack when you must have one. Light yoghurt and sugar free fruit salads are the right way to go for desert.

Between 30’s and 50’s comes the maternity age. Whether you are a mother or not, in a relationship or not, the age and the biological factors influence your figure.

The 40’s make us more open to gravity attraction and gives us a lot less motivation to stay in shape.

Married girls tend to share the passion for food of their partners but unlike us the men need 2400 calories / day, while by that age we need only half.

Cooking is something most of us like to do around this age so there is no wonder that we would want to enjoy the food we prepare. However, it is recommendable to cook using only healthy ingredients. Focus on using olive oil, fresh vegetables and reduce the meat and fat cheese intake.

The deserts you bake for your young will conquer your heart but keep in mind to only taste them and leave the rest for kids. Sweets at this age can do a lot of damage.

The drastic diets you plan to follow around 40’s are not the solution. They will only starve you and if you want to lose the extra weight a nutritionist is the only person with the authority to teach you how to eat.

Keep in mind that without sport the battle with the kilograms is lost.

The 50’s come with the menopause. Along the many issues it comes with this means that the body is no longer firm and shaped and every little excess will show on the body line.

The right way to keep in shape is eat less and consider walking. The appetite grows with the hormonal change and you tend to enjoy sweet treats and heavy meals more than you used too. Replace the temptations with fruit and light dairy.

Choose organic foods as much as possible and introduce calcium supplements in your diet.
The bottom line is that our body ages while our food habits change. We can enjoy treats and be beautiful provided we make a habit of keeping a balance between the two.

We hear every day that more and more people are turning to a greener way of living and of course eating.

Going vegan has become quite a trend and like any trend there are many pros and cons supporting or speaking against it.

The so many people advertising the diet are calling it the sensible way of living and they are not wrong. Except from B12 – the single vitamin not able to be synthesized in the absence of animal protein, the diet covers all the basic, shows respect for the environment and most of all helps you lose weight.

With all the above arguments there is no wonder that “ going green” trend so benefic for the current society has adopted the diet as a dear child and many of the followers of the vegan state they are living green for vegan is an attitude not only a way of eating.

What makes the vegan diet so cool? First it seems that not eating meat or any kind of animal byproducts it’s a lot healthier and detoxifying than a normal diet.

Also not using anything that has as source animal life makes you a less consuming person and naturally your life becomes “greener”.

On the other hand the detractors of the diet say it deprives the body of certain nutrients and ultimately influences the mind and the way people think. There is even a folklore about the “vegan lobotomy” saying that veganism causes people to be less communicative and quite grumpy.

Well the people following the vegan lifestyle certainly do not have a weight problem, a thing that is not at all surprising considering that vegetables and fruit have a low cholesterol if any and without dairy or meat the body takes the fiber and nutrients exclusively from the vegetal world so, if we are to believe the nutritionists, this means less toxins.

Do you think is hard to go vegan?

Take for example the Orthodox Lent preached by the Orthodox Church all over the world. During 40 days the believers are under interdiction of consuming and type of animal product and byproduct. Of course the non church people are allowed to consume honey and oil and occasionally fish during special days but that is all.

This period of time is considered an act of will in the service of God and this type of practice is familiar in both Buddhism and Muslimism so the vegan concept is not exactly new.

So if you are looking for a detoxifying diet you may try on vegan. Who knows, perhaps you will become a fan.

Generally the cabbage soup diet is not recommended by the nutritionists because the body cannot possibly take all the necessary nutrients from this poor excuse of food. Still, you would be amazed how popular this diet is.

Basically, the diet is based on plain cabbage soup and its purpose is to burn fat and feed our body a very little quantity of calories. According to Aboutcabbagesoupdiet.com the soup quantity is suppose to burn and equal amount of calories.

Before you plan to dive into it there are a few pros and cons you should consider and help you understand why so many women choose to keep this diet in spite of every nutritionist’s advice.

The pros:

The cabbage soup diet is a diet with very fast results. The weight is not lost gradually so you can stop whenever you feel you have reached the desired weight.

The soup is actually quite tasty, it is easy to make and is practically very cheap.

You can lose around 7 kilograms in 7 days and once you give it up you won’t get the weight back in the blink of an eye like it happens after a lot of diets.

It can be considered a maintenance diet in the winter-summer transition which can help the body get ready for the lighter and less rich in nutrients summer food.

The cons

After only three days with the cabbage soup diet the body feels tired and tends to lose vitality and the power to focus and work. If you are planning to keep it consider that you might get dizzy, feel drained of energy and lack enthusiasm.

The body needs vitamins so depriving it will be like slowly putting it through torture.

Be sure you will dread the cabbage taste, smell and anything related to this vegetable.

During the time you stick to this diet you kind of have to stay put at home because you will spend a lot of time in the bathroom…You can guess why.

After you are done with the diet, if you do not plan to follow a lighter food regime and fall back into your usual eating habit the weight will build back faster than you might think.

The bottom line is that so many of us tried this diet at one point or the other or heard our friends talking about its result. Losing weight through dieting may not work the same for every one of us, so if you choose to try the cabbage soup diet consider all of the above and stay safe.

Keep in mind that your weight is important but so is a healthy active life filled with positive attitude.